---
id: id
version: "1.6.1"
license: unclear
license_treatment: permissive
maintenance: active
---

# id — A tool for generating OIDC identities

License: permissive · Maintenance: active · Popularity: top 1,000 on PyPI

## Install

pip install id
uv add id
poetry add id

## Description

id
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`id` is a Python tool for generating OIDC identities. It can automatically
detect and produce OIDC credentials on a number of environments, including
GitHub Actions, GitLab pipelines and Google Cloud.

## Installation

`id` requires Python 3.8 or newer, and can be installed directly via `pip`:

```console
python -m pip install id
```

## Usage

You can run `id` as a Python module via `python -m`:

```console
python -m id --help
```

Top-level:

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```
usage: id [-h] [-V] [-v] [-d] audience

a tool for generating OIDC identities

positional arguments:
  audience       the OIDC audience to use

optional arguments:
  -h, --help     show this help message and exit
  -V, --version  show program's version number and exit
  -v, --verbose  run with...

## AI interpretation — verify before relying

A tool for generating OIDC identity tokens by automatically detecting and retrieving credentials from supported environments like GitHub Actions, GitLab, Google Cloud, Buildkite, and CircleCI.

Verdict: Production-ready OIDC credential tool with low install friction, active maintenance, permissive licensing, and zero known vulnerabilities. Well-suited for CI/CD pipelines and workload identity scenarios across major cloud and CI platforms.

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